Mizuno Tadatomo

Mizuno Tadatomo (水野忠友, 1731–1802) was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period.

Career

Mizuno was an official in the Tokugawa shogunate. He was a junior counselor (wakadoshiyori) in the 1770s.^[1] From 3 November 1871 to 3 May 1788, he was a senior counselor (rōjū) at the top of the shōgun's hierarchy.^[2]

In the political struggles of his time, he was a member of the faction headed by Tanuma Okitsugu.^[3] He managed to survive Tanuma's downfall; and he worked for a time with Matsudaira Sadanobu.^[4]

References

^ Screech, Timon. (2012). Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775–1776, p. 260 n71.
^ Rathbone, Jim. (2006). James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo, p. 159.
^ MacClain, James L. et al. (1997). Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era, p. 414.
^ Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. (2006). Thinking like a man: Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825), p. 84 n70.

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[1] Screech, Timon. (2012). Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775–1776, p. 260 n71.

[2] Rathbone, Jim. (2006). James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo, p. 159.

[3] MacClain, James L. et al. (1997). Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era, p. 414.

[4] Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. (2006). Thinking like a man: Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825), p. 84 n70.

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